In Praise of the Invisible - Words Without Borders
In this essay, Colombian writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez praises the translator and translation’s ability to increase our access to the world and broaden our sense of humanity.
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In this essay, Colombian writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez praises the translator and translation’s ability to increase our access to the world and broaden our sense of humanity.
The Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez was an unabashed fan of English versions of his novels, suggesting that Gregory Rabassa's translation of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" surpassed the original. Anne McLean's marvelous rendering of García Márquez's posthumous "Until August" continues the tra
Posthumous novel is constructed as a fugue, with a heroine named after the wife of composer Johann Sebastian Bach
Until August By: Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Anne McLean. Publisher: Knopf, 129 pages, $22.
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